NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Kit Harington jumped at the chance to sport what he calls a “proper porn ‘stache” to play a drug-running killer in “Blood for Dust.” The “Game of Thrones” actor — who confirmed a Jon Snow-centered sequel is on ice — stars in the new film alongside Scoot McNairy … Read more
NEW YORK — Shaina Taub was in the audience at “Suffs,” her buzzy and timely new musical about women’s suffrage, when she spied something that delighted her. It was intermission, and Taub, both creator and star, had been watching her understudy perform at a matinee preview last week. Suddenly, she saw audience members searching the … Read more
Katie Rose Clarke was about nine months pregnant with her third child when she got the call to audition for Broadway’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” which is now playing at New York’s Hudson Theatre after a 2022 off-Broadway run. Clarke spent much of that early tryout “hoping and praying” that the musical’s creative team would … Read more
After playing crime-fighting superhero Barry Allen on “The Flash” for nearly a decade, Grant Gustin has happily run away and joined the circus. The Virginia-born actor can be found under the big top ― Broadway’s version of it, that is ― in the musical adaptation of “Water for Elephants,” which opened at New York’s Imperial … Read more
NEW YORK — Jon Jon Briones had the best vantage point to watch his daughter, Isa, make her Broadway debut. He wasn’t sitting in the front row or hovering backstage. He was beside her. Father and daughter stepped into the musical “Hadestown” last month, he playing Hermes and she Eurydice. It was the first time … Read more
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — James Monroe Iglehart’s mom took him to see the animated Disney movie “Aladdin” as a high-school graduation gift in 1992. He fell in love with the Genie, naturally. Fast-forward more than two decades and Iglehart found himself playing the first Genie on Broadway, killing it, and on his … Read more
NEW YORK — The romantic tearjerker “The Notebook” lands on Broadway in awkward musical theater form this spring having previously conquered books and movies. It is intent now on making a live audience openly weep by employing massive doses of schlocky sentimentality without the aid of Ryan Gosling. The bombastic musical that opened Thursday at … Read more
A Texas high school has canceled its spring production of “The Laramie Project,” a play about the aftermath of the 1998 vicious murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming. Timber Creek High School administrators emailed parents on Friday to say that the play would be canceled but did not provide an explanation, … Read more
NEW YORK — A new, inclusive stage production of âPeter Panâ flies out on a U.S. tour this month, telling the classic tale of a boy who refuses to grow up â but without references that, ironically, have aged poorly. Gone are elements harmful to Native people, in are a few new songs and the … Read more
Pedro Pascal is jumping from Star Wars to Marvel. The âLast of Usâ and âMandalorianâ actor is set to play Reed Richards (also known as Mister Fantastic) in the newest incarnation of âThe Fantastic Four,â the studio announced Wednesday. The rest of his squad was revealed, too, with Vanessa Kirby stepping up as Susan Storm … Read more
